communicate:Chris Boneau / Steven Padla (212) 575-3030. SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANYPRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OFQUEENS BOULEVARD (the musical)BY 2007-2008 PLAYWRIGHT-IN-RESIDENCE CHARLES MEEDIRECTED BY DAVIS McCALLUMCHOREOGRAPHY BY PETER PUCCINOVEMBER 6-DECEMBER 30OPENING NIGHT IS DECEMBER 3TICKETS ON SALE OCTOBER 2Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton. Founding Artistic Director;Erika Mallin. Executive Director) presents the world premiere of QUEENSBOULEVARD (the musical) by 2007-2008 Playwright-in-Residence CharlesMee. Directed by Davis McCallum and choreographed by Peter Pucci. QUEENSBOULEVARD (the musical) begins performances on Tuesday. November 6 atSignature Theatre affiliate's Peter Norton Space located at 555 West 42ndStreet (between 10th and 11th Avenues). Opening Night is Monday,December 3. Through The Signature Ticket Initiative which seeks to alter greattheatre accessible to the broadest possible audience allregularly-priced hit tickets ($65) are available for $20 during theregular runs of each production for the entire season and continuesthrough Signature's 20th Anniversary Season (2010-2011). The SignatureTicket Initiative is made possible by the lead sponsorship of TimeWarner. Inc. Generous give for The Signature book Initiative isprovided by Margot Adams in memory of Mason Adams. The cast of QUEENS BOULEVARD (the musical) includes Amir Arison (A VeryCommon Procedure. MCC). Satya Bhabha (St. Ann's. The Flea Theatre),Michi Barall (A Midsummer Night's Dream. Public Theater). MarshaStephanie Blake (The Crucible). account Buell (Inherit the Wind),Demosthenes Chrysan (Homebody/Kabul. Trinity Rep). Geeta Citygirl(fail artistic director of salute Theatre). Emily Donahoe (The GlassMenagerie. Berkeley Rep). William Jackson Harper (Thicker Than wet,EST). Jodi Lin (The Joy Luck unify. Pan Asian Rep). Arian Moayed (Masked,DR2). Debargo Sanyal (Women of Trachis. Target Margin). Jon NormanSchneider (Durango. Public Theater) and Ruth Zhang (Tiananmen. MusicalTheater Works). QUEENS BOULEVARD (the musical) features musical supervision andarrangements by Michael Friedman music direction by Matt go scenicdesign by Mimi Lien costume create by mental act by Christal Weatherly lightingdesign by Marcus Doshi appear create by mental act by Ken Travis and video design byJoseph Spirito. On his wedding day a new preserve is determined to find the ameliorate giftfor his bride. While she waits at home he searches for the mythicalFlower of Heaven and is thrown into a series of colorful adventures onthe streets of his neighborhood in Queens. New York. Inspired by aclassical Indian move drama. Queens Boulevard (the musical) celebrateslove community and life. BIOGRAPHIESCHARLES MEE (2007-2008 Playwright-in-Residence) has written Big like,True Love. First like bobrauschenbergamerica. Hotel Cassiopeia. Orestes2.0. Trojan Women 2.0. Summertime and Wintertime among other plays - allof them available on the internet at. His plays havebeen performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. American RepertoryTheatre. New York Theatre Workshop the Public Theatre. Lincoln Center,the Humana Festival. Steppenwolf and many other places in the UnitedStates as well as in Berlin. Paris. Amsterdam. Brussels. Vienna,Istanbul. Among other awards he is the recipient of the LifetimeAchievement Award in drama from the American Academy of Arts andLetters. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne DonovanFisher and Richard B. Fisher. DAVIS McCALLUM (Director) New York credits consider: Quiara Hudes'Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue (P73 at The grow communicate; Pulitzer PrizeFinalist). The Turn of the Screw. Jane Eyre (The Acting affiliate),Unbound: The Journals of Fanny Kemble. The Belle's Stratagem. West MoonStreet (look Theater Company) and Noah Haidle's The Dakota Projectand Women & Criminals (HERE). Regional: The Belle's Stratagem (OregonShakespeare Festival); Romeo & Juliet (Playmakers Rep. Chapel Hill);Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House (Cleveland Playhouse); his own adaptationof Cyrano de Bergerac (Georgia Shakespeare); Twelfth Night (AmericanShakespeare Center); As You Like It (Shakespeare Theater/ACA); Mee's BigLove. Haidle's A desire History of Neglect. Ruhl's Melancholy Play(McCarter Theater/Princeton University); four summers at New York Stage& Film. International: the British premieres of Ruhl's Eurydice and DougWright's Watbanaland (MacOwan Theatre) and the world do of PeterMorris's Marge (Edinburgh adorn). He was the Killian Directing Fellowat the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2003) and a Drama unify DirectingFellow (2001) and recently received an NEA/TCG Career DevelopmentFellowship for Directors (2007). He was a member of the Lincoln CenterDirectors Lab (2001) the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab (2003) and theJack O'Brien Directors Lab at the Old Globe (2007). He trained at LAMDAand studied at Princeton and Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. PETER PUCCI (Choreographer) Off B'way: populate Be Heard. After Ashley,The Agony and The Agony. The Late Henry Moss. adjust like. Eyes forConsuela; Regional: Yale Rep: Safe in Hell. The Cherry Orchard. MissJulie. The Black Monk; Westport Playhouse: A Marriage Minuet; The MagicTheater: The Late Henry Moss; Great Lakes Theater Festival: Romeo andJuliet; North Shore Music Theatre: Letters from 'Nam; Baltimore CenterStage/Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Fall; The Shakespeare Theatre: TheMerry Wives of Windsor. Twelfth Night; The McCarter Theater:Mrs. Packard. Hamlet. cozen for Love. The Cherry Orchard. The Importanceof Being Earnest. The Learned Ladies; Hartford re-create: pass and consume,Eight by Tenn. Macbeth. Camino Real; National journey: The Civil War;TheatreWorks USA: Romeo and Juliet; Baltimore Opera: Samson and Delilah;domiciliate Music Society of Lincoln Center: Renard move Commissions: PucciPlus Dancers; Ballet Hispanico; Joffrey Ballet; Colorado Ballet; BalletArizona; Ballet Pacifica; Pittsburgh Ballet; Pilobolus Dance Theatre;Artist in Residence. Manhattanville CollegeSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY (James Houghton. Founding Artistic Director;Erika Mallin. Executive Director) Signature Theatre Company founded in1991 by James Houghton exists to honor and get together the playwright. Signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright's body of work,and during this jaunt the writer is engaged in every aspect of thecreative affect. For the past 16 years the Company has devoted anentire season to the work of a hit playwright includingre-examinations of past writings as come up as New York and worldpremieres. By championing in-depth explorations of a living playwright'sbody of bring home the bacon the affiliate delivers an hint and immersive journeyinto the playwright's singular vision. Signature has presented entireseasons of the work of Edward Albee. Lee Blessing. Horton Foote,Adrienne Kennedy. Maria Irene Fornes. John Guare. account Irwin. RomulusLinney. Arthur Miller. Sam Shepard. Paula Vogel. August Wilson andLanford Wilson. Signature remains deeply committed to these season-longresidencies and during the affiliate's tenth and fifteenth anniversaries,Signature introduced an additional residency the Legacy Program. TheLegacy Program invites past playwrights-in-residence approve to Signaturethrough two series: the Signature Series which presents "signature," ormore well-known works; and the Premiere Series which presents New Yorkand world premieres. Since 2005. Signature has been committed to presenting world-classtheatre at an affordable price through The Signature book Initiative,which.
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